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Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization

tombert

Comments (74)

  • farseer
    I feel like the entire world needs to take a plunge towards LibreOffice for the good of all.
  • overclock-api
    Good work. I had assumed Office and Wine had been an unsolvable problem due to how long it had been around.What specifically breaks? My understanding is that the modern version of Office is in reality a combination of many things: the licensing layer, the .NET bits, the Click-to-Run packaging, and finally the app. If it turns out that the real hard part is the licensing/activation flow rather than the app itself, that is a more interesting discovery in that the problem is less about the app itself and more about how the distribution works. Which might also explain why it got easier to tackle.
  • alright2565
    I've done something similar with a CAD app, where I've used AI tools to package it as a Nix flake. It's a really good format for wine packaging since it makes it so easy to patch wine in ways that would never be accepted upstream, and it makes launching it just one command vs needing to deal with other people's potentially broken wine prefixes.
  • rkagerer
    That's ok, I still prefer Word 2003 to the bloated, web-wired, ribbon-infested garbage that came after.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202540
  • pluc
    It's cool to see things that were entirely unnecessary popping up with the help of AI. Nobody ever cared enough to do this, nobody is going to use this, but now we can just shit it out knowing full well nobody is going to care. Just had to sacrifice humanity's knowledge and a few professions to get there.
  • PeterStuer
    365 on Linux with a sup? Why would MS not celebrate this? Windows consumer has been a loss leader for quite some time, and entreprise wont touch it till its 100% cleared.
  • jmkni
    What version of Office are we talking about?
  • robinpie
    Awesome!
  • tiahura
    Bravo! Beat me. Been working on this for a bit.
  • anon
    undefined
  • TiredOfLife
    The bottles project https://x.com/brombinmirko also has been progressing with alpha being promised "soon"
  • sid_ships
    [flagged]
  • Kwpolska
    Show HN is for things you made, not things where all commits are made by Claude.